Late in March of last year, police descended on a homeless encampment at Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles.

Breaking news. It appears the crackdown has finally begun tonight to clean up one of LA's

largest homeless camps. As the news spread, activists began gathering.

Their protests were directed at the police who had orders to clear the park and then the streets.

I'm a killer. You're a kid. I'm a killer.

Reporters rushed to Echo Park too. That was kind of my bee housing, homelessness, cops,

the intersection of all three. Lexus Olivier Ray writes for a culture and news website called LA TACO.

It was like one of the most covered events stories that I've ever reported on.

Police tried to direct the reporters to a staging ground outside the park and away from the

most intense protests. How do I tell a story that now I don't even have access to?

Kate Kagle, a reporter for Spectrum News 1 in LA, was there to capture what happened when the

police swept through the camp, displacing nearly 200 people. Instead, she got caught in the middle.

Wait, I'm expecting these ones. They have my name. Wait, I have to say with my crew. They have

the police zip tied Kagle's wrists and moved her away from the scene moments before she was to go

on air. I have a clip of me holding up my press pass next to my face saying like, hey,

I'm pressed. This is my crew. We just want to go. And they said no, you have to stay.

Consider this. Over the past two years, about 200 journalists across the country have been

detained or arrested while on the job. Many were covering social justice protests.

When I saw the police officers, I no longer felt like they were providing safety for me.

Coming up, we'll look at the growing tension between police and the press through the lens of

one chaotic night in LA. From NPR, I'm Ari Shapiro. It's Friday, April 29th.

It's considered this from NPR. That night at LA's Echo Park Lake in March 2021 was bigger than

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